Our second day in Sanming has been interesting indeed. We took a walk in a public park with Shawna's grandpa and he told tales of his personal history during the Cultural Revolution. We walked up a small hill from which we could see the entire town of Sanming and the factories in the distance coughing out smoke and contributing generously to the haze over the valley. Afterwards we had another big dinner outing with Shawna's mom and her mom's old college friend. The guy looked like a cross between Mao Ze Dong and the villain from "Story of Ricky." You'd imagine the head of the computer science dept at a local university to be a bit of a square, but this guy was a wealthy mob-boss-looking guy with a greasy comb-over and bad teeth. He brought along an equally mafia-involved-looking friend who had a cinematic scar over his eye and we ate a bunch and drank a bunch. It was hard to imagine Shawna's mom having a friend so different from her. Afterward we had tea at "The Boss" house and met the guy's son who is a grad student. The son took us to the one and only bar and hot spot in this small town to drink light beer and play dice games. He even went so far as to hire a girl to play dice games with us and to generally be present.
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